The British Arts council target young adults aged between 16 and 35 and put together there work with collaborations from other countries or artists, and they have a specialist music team that goes out to watch these performances. This team score your performance and if your music seems appealing for any other countries they will help promote your music to these countries, giving us a wider audience and more fans, thus more money. For example they got Mumford and Son's and Laura Marling a tour in India in 2009. This is one of the collaborations they did on whilst on the project "Sound pad"
Although Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling are probably very grateful for the chance The Arts Council gave them, it was hard to find any evidence of a reaction to the involvement with the government and their success, which could lead to the question, does the government do enough to support UK artist, enough to make the artists want to credit their involvement at least? but it's best not to go down that road for now.
The next example, is a story of how Ian Hogarth, the founder of Song kick won the British Council UK young entrepreneur award in 2010.
- http://blog.britishcouncil.org/2010/05/songkick-founder-wins-british-council-uk-young-music-entrepreneur-2010/
In this instance then, you can see more of a reaction to action from the government, where Hogarth is asked "When you got there, how did you find it in terms of what you thought it would be and where it actually was?". He replies with things like "I met the biggest festival promoter in China, who the British Arts Council introduced us to" and "I really got a top down view that there is opportunity there and I can go and start doing things".
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